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• The UK's Health & Safety Executive have today released their final report in to the events surrounding the Barrow outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in 2002.

  A catalogue of "basic failings"

  "The number of fateful 'coincidences' involved was scarcely credible"

  "Such basic failings should not have occurred and, sadly, these failures could have been easily prevented" ... more >>

'Errors' led to Legionella deaths

A catalogue of "basic failings" led to a Legionnaires' disease outbreak that killed seven people, a report says.
Another 180 people were infected in Barrow, Cumbria, in 2002 because of a faulty air conditioning system at the council-run Forum 28 arts centre.

The errors could have been "easily prevented" by Barrow Borough Council, the Health and Safety Executive says.

The report blames poor communication between staff and says staff failed to act .... more >>

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